Lemvia
Translate selected text and screen OCR across your Mac
What it does
Lemvia keeps translation inside your Mac workflow instead of sending you to a browser or separate chat. Translate selected text beside its source, capture unselectable screen text with local OCR, or work in a focused bilingual desk. Copy or replace results in place, keep history locally, and choose Lemvia Cloud or your own compatible API.
Translate selected text, capture screen text with OCR, or work in a focused bilingual desk with Lemvia for macOS 13 and later.
Lemvia is a Mac translation app for selected text, screen OCR, and focused bilingual work. Translate in place, then bring the result back to the source. No browser detour. No copy-paste maze. Lemvia meets the text in its original context, then disappears when the work is done. Highlight a sentence, press your shortcut, and receive a compact translation beside the source. Frame a menu, image, subtitle, or scanned page. OCR extracts and translates it in one pass. Paste or write longer material in Lemvia’s two-pane workspace, with tone, glossary, and history nearby. Capture subtitles, scanned documents, menus, slides, and images. Lemvia recognizes the text locally, preserves reading order, and…from lemvia.app
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